A former union parishad (UP) chairman was killed in an attack allegedly carried out by the incumbent UP chairman and his supporters in Atghor Kuriana union of Pirojpur's Nesarabad upazila today
There once was a time when carpenters at an industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila would use handmade equipment to produce various types of furniture.
If you travel through the canals of southern Barishal, particularly those in the Pirojpur and Jhalkathi districts, you will see hog plum fields on either side with trawlers and trucks filled with the fruit passing alongside.
Seven other workers managed to swim ashore but Hasan remained missing, the OC said.
Fire fighters and policemen were trying to find Hasan till filing this report around 2:00pm.
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